Monday, June 12, 2000

Revenge on a Spammer -- 10:54 pm CST, Update by J.t.Qbe

A.T. and T.M. should love this site. It's the story of a spammer who forged someone else's domain as the return address on her spam. He got her account shut down. She did it again, and he shut her down again. When she returned with an AOL account and started forging his domain name again, he had had enough. And unfortunately for her, he is an internet security expert who knows lots and lots of hacker tricks.

• WATCH! as he hacks into her hard drive while she's online
• LAUGH! as he reveals every detail he can find about her spamming business
• RECOIL! in shock as you see the crooked scams she's pulled
• GASP! in horror as you look at pictures of a real live spammer

*Warning* This site contains a few nude photos of the spammer and should not be viewed by children and those who want to keep their lunch down.

Big Blue Backs Linux -- 7:22 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

This ZDNet article details numerous announcements made recently by IBM, announcing its increasing support of Linux. This is great news for Linux fans as the OS attempts to become more "mainstream." The main distros need the backing of a company like Big Blue. ThinkPads preloaded with Linux. Mmmmm. Thanks Linux Today.

Deus Ex Gold! -- 5:34 pm CST, Update by The Master

Deus Ex, Ion's shortest game-in-production, has gone Gold, and is expected June 22. Blue has the official Press Release from Eidos if you're into the Marketing fluff :-)

More CS Server DLL updates -- 1:18 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's several updated 6.5b .dll files available over on the Counter-Strike website, including one for Win32, and one for Linux. If you run a server these are highly recommended.

History today -- 12:16 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1838: Iowa Territory was organized.
• 1897: The penknife later known as the "Swiss Army Knife" is patented.
• 1898: The Philippines are declared independent of Spain during the Spanish-American War.
• 1918: First Bombing Raid by American Aircraft conducted by six Army aircraft.
• 1937: The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders in a purge under Josef Stalin.
• 1939: The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.
• 1967: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
• 1978: Serial killer David Berkowitz, known as the "Son of Sam," received the maximum penalty, 25 years to life in prison, with a recommendation that he spend the rest of his life in custody.
• 1979: 26-year-old cyclist Bryan Allen flew the man-powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.
• 1990: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty.

Sunday, June 11, 2000

Q3A Requiem Release -- 9:38 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's a new release of Q3A Requiem over on the ReQ3A page. Included is a whole slew of features from the original QW Requiem mod, including the freezegun, holograms, and the jump boots. Coolness-I'll have to pull this down later :-)

New HL Server DLL released -- 4:29 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's a new Win32 server DLL for Half-Life released over on the Counter-Strike messageboards. This fixes a whole slew of problems created in the 1.1 Half-Life release. If you want to download it, follow the link above and read through the post-it includes the information needed to download the file from Valve.

• Out of Handles crash fixed.
• Delayed death messages when downloading a custom decal fixed.
• Fixedwrong skins being seen in Team Fortress 1.5.
• Fixed players showing as 'Unassigned' in Team Fortress 1.5 Scoreboard.
• Status command will show IP of connected clients to dedicated server.
• Remote logging fixed (LOGADDRESS).
• Fixed fakelag cheat.

History today -- 4:22 pm CST, Update by The Master

• 1770: Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.
• 1776: The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
• 1947: The U.S. government announced the end of household and institutional sugar rationing, to take effect the next day.
• 1963: Buddhist monk Quang Duc burned to death on a Saigon street to protest against the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
• 1970: The last detachment of U.S. forces leaves Weelus Air Base in Libya, ending U.S. presense there.
• 1979: Actor John Wayne died at age 72.

Your Next Operating System -- 4:17 pm CST, Update by J.t.Qbe

If you've been living in a cyber-cave for the last 5 years and don't know what the heck this Linux stuff is about, check out this article about Linux in today's Washington Post. It's a pretty good intro, though it does seem pretty pro-Linux. Not that that's a bad thing.

Linux has come a long way during the 4 years I've been using it. I just got around to installing SuSE 6.3, which I won at a conference in May. The "everything" install put 7 gigs of software on my drive. It installed software for just about any purpose you can imagine. Then I discovered that it had clobbered one of the other partitions on the same drive--a Windows partition which came before it in the partition table, but existed at the end of the disk. Now it's listed as a FAT32 drive, but seems to point to the Linux partition. Go figure THAT one out. Oh well. I only lost a few games. . .

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